Sabz5150

Sabz5150 t1_itx599l wrote

>Yeah, because women LITERALLY weren't allowed to even apply for these roles until recently

Women helped win WWII in such jobs. Turns out they are fantastic welders.

>and there's still massive sexism within a lot of manual labour industries

Blue collar manual worker here. No. The women that do work here would not tolerate it. That stereotype is breathing its last breath thankfully.

> It's almost like (gasp) increased equality in the workplace could help to solve this issue too!

Its about making the proverbial horse drink, there is water all around. Its not all that high paying, not clean at all, and in rather undesirable temperatures at times. Not exactly what you described as the jobs that women are gunning for. Is there a drive to get women into blue collar like there is with STEM?

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